New South Wales Repealed Acts

This legislation has been repealed.

PUBLIC HEALTH ACT 1991 - SECT 29

29 Apprehension of person who contravenes public health order

(1) A certificate by an authorised medical practitioner to the effect that a named person is contravening a public health order is a sufficient ground for the issue to a police officer of a warrant to apprehend the person and detain the person in custody pending an inquiry under section 30.

(2) A police officer who is provided with such a certificate is, as soon as practicable, to:

(a) obtain a warrant for which the certificate is a ground, and

(b) apprehend the person named in the certificate, and

(c) detain the person in custody pending an inquiry under section 30.

(3) Section 27 applies in relation to detention following apprehension under this section in the same way as it would apply if the certificate that led to the apprehension had been a public health order.